Alfred Enoch will play Romeo in upcoming season at Shakespeare's Globe

Alfred Enoch will play Shakespeare's tragic hero
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Zoe Paskett22 January 2020

Alfred Enoch will star as Romeo to open the Shakespeare’s Globe theatre’s upcoming spring season, it has been announced.

Ola Ince is set to direct the How To Get Away With Murder actor in the tragic lead role from April. Casting for Juliet has yet to be announced.

He was last seen on the London stage in Tree at the Young Vic theatre, and starred alongside Alfred Molina in John Logan’s Red in the West End.

Ince has gained recent acclaim for her work on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate, Debris Stevenson's Poet In Da Corner and Danai Gurira's The Convert.

Associate artistic director Sean Holmes follows this by directing the Globe Ensemble in Twelfth Night. He will also co-direct a new version of Ovid’s Metamorphoses alongside Holly Race Roughan. It will be created by the theatre’s new writers-in-residence, Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz.

Elsewhere in the season, Eleanor Rhode returns to the Globe to direct Much Ado About Nothing and Nadia Nadarajah stars as the Egyptian queen in Antony & Cleopatra.

Artistic director Michelle Terry said: “The preoccupations that consume Shakespeare’s work are not too distant from our own: growing inequality, social injustice, a natural world raging at the irresponsibility of humankind. But through these metaphysical and mythic works of art we are also given the opportunity to imagine an alternative.”

The theatre will hold a two-day event to explore the relationships between the bard’s works and the current climate crisis. Globe 4 Globe: Shakespeare and the Climate Emergency will see scholars, environmental experts and theatre practitioners reflect on how live theatre can change audience perception and behaviour.

Romeo and Juliet will open the new season on April 14.

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